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| Title |
“There is hunger in my community”: a qualitative study of food security as a cyclical force in sex work in Swaziland
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-79 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Zandile Mnisi, Darrin Adams, Stefan Baral, Caitlin Kennedy |
| Abstract |
Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world - 32% of adults are currently living with HIV - and many Swazis are chronically food insecure - in 2011 one in four Swazis required food aid from the World Food Programme. In southern Africa, food insecurity has been linked to high-risk sexual behaviors, difficulty with antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, higher rates of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and more rapid HIV progression. Sex workers in Swaziland are a population that is most at risk of HIV. Little is known about the context and needs of sex workers in Swaziland who are living with HIV, nor how food insecurity may affect these needs. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 24% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| Eswatini | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Uganda | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 71% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 241 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 238 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 48 | 20% |
| Researcher | 31 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 46 | 19% |
| Unknown | 57 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 54 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 47 | 20% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 6% |
| Psychology | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 12% |
| Unknown | 64 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2024.
All research outputs
#1,525,459
of 25,211,948 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,686
of 16,869 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,259
of 319,456 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#33
of 284 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,211,948 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,869 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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